More Service Pack 2 Issues

I guess it was wishful thinking when I installed my first Windows 2003 SP2 hoping i’d only had the help and support issue to worry about The day after the installation i got a call from the client to say they were having problems with one particular printer (HP Colour Laser 3600) where it sometimes prints

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Vlad The Mind Reader

Move over Derren Brown, Vlad knows what your thinking! When i start Outlook in the morning there are a few feeds i always check first as i look forward to seeing what the author has to say and Vlad’s is one of those. After his post on the disappearance of free community resources (and my subsequent “what

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SBS 2003 Team Chat Coming Soon

Just repeating posts by David and the SBS Official Blog  (David’s post is broken at the moment for some reason!) Small Business Server 2003 Chat (EMEA Community) Join the Small Business Server team for questions and general discussion on SBS 2003. Bring your comments and concerns on the product and discuss them with the team.

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Care In The Community

Sorry about the title…i couldn’t resist 🙂 (it’s probably a UK only joke though i’d imagine?) I was on my home computer late last night and it was nearly midnight so before i shut down for the night i randomly thought to myself “I wonder if Vlad’s posted anything tonight” I have no idea why,

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SBS 2003 SP2 installations

Service pack 2 almost has Susan’s seal of  approval. It’s a great post that talks a lot of common sense about any major patch/service pack installation. Plan it….think about what your doing and don’t blindly install without at the very least having some sort of backup! If you follow the process in Susan’s post you should be

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Make Your Opinion Known

This has been all over the SBS-o-blog-o-sphere  🙂 today but just in case you’ve missed it! The SBS WW Community Survey 2007 is up and running…go fill it out and let them know what is good and bad about the SBS Community. If Microsoft don’t know what you think they how can they help improve things

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Am i losing business for doing a proper job?

I’m putting my neck on the block a little with this but wanted to ask the opinion of others We’ve recently quoted to do a new server installation We have both quoted for the same hardware and software (HP Proliant Server, SBS Premium) but we have been told we’re being beaten on the amount of days

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Am i getting the wrong end of the stick?

The is a post over on SBSDiva about tool for moving profiles to a new domain Stop me if i’m completly missing the point of this tool but can’t you already do this When you run the connectcomputer wizard you already get option of moving profiles to new user accounts From the SBS 2003 Administrators Guide

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Sonicwall Firewall & Exchange 2000 OWA

We have a customer who is trying to squeeze every last breath from their SBS 2000 installation. We have demonstrated the benefits of SBS 2003 but they dont want to spend the cash (yet!) Anyway, after being told about Outlook Web Access hundreds of times we got asked the question “can i access my email away

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Guess Whose Back?

—26/01/07 Correction to the post. It should read TICK the box instead of Clear—  Back in the office today after a week on holiday. Work was so mad up until i left i didn’t get a chance to post much I did mention in my last post that i had a problem getting WSUS clients to update. I

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